Mangarella v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Flamingo Paradise Gaming, LLC v. Chanos (2009), Wilfong v. Commonwealth (2004)
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Minnesota v. Murphy · Lefkowitz v. Turley · McKay v. Board of Sup'rs of Carson City
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be given [its] plain meaning and must be construed as a whole and not be read in a way that would render words or phrases superfluous or make a provision nugatory.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moreover, the rules of statutory interpretation that apply to penal statutes require that provisions which negatively impact a defendant must be strictly construed, while provisions which positively impact a defendant are to be given a more liberal construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the scope of polygraph examination must be limited to questions relating to the use of controlled substances by the defendant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.